Key areas of focus for Research papers/topics dealing with Computer Games Multimedia & Allied Technologies – CGAT Conference including but not limited to:
- Computer Games, Multimedia
- Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- Web Technologies and Internet Applications
- Social Computing and Behavioural Modeling
- Enterprise Resource Planning & Supply Chain Management
- Mobile Communications, Networking and Applications
- Network Technologies & Communications
Computer Games, Multimedia
- Optoelectronic instrumentation, measurement and metrology
- Gaming – Mobile, PC, Online, Console
- Aesthetic Approaches to Game Design & Development
- Storytelling and Narrative Landscapes
- Design Documentation
- Games Simulations and Dynamic Models
- Interactive Simulations
- Tools and Systems for Games and Virtual Reality
- Intelligent Agents and Gamebots
- Gaming – Hardware and Accessories
- Graphics & Visualisation
- Texture and Shader Programming
- Stereographic in Real-Time
- Cinematography
- Sound Design and Music Systems
- Multichannel Audio
- Audio Techniques for Racing Games
- Media Theory
- Interactive Dynamic Response for Games
- Mapping the Mental Space of Game Genres
- Cultural and Media Studies on Computer Games
- Experiential Spatiality in Games
- Player Behavior and Consumer Demographics
- Game Development Contract Outsourcing
- Project Funding and Financing
- Social/Humanities Aspects of Games
- Cheat Codes -To Cheat or Not to Cheat
- Mobile and Multiuser Games
- IPTV and Service Convergence
- Pay-As-You-Play and IPTV
- Academic Courses for Game Design & Development
- Multiuser Virtual Environments (Muves) in Education
- Learning to Play or Learning through Play
- Game Security
- Games and Intellectual Property Rights
- Laws, Regulations, Certifications and Policies for Gaming
- Censorship of Video Games Content
- Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Gaming
- Art, Design and New Media
- Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies
- Human Factors of Games
- Sound and Music
- 3D Geometric models
Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- Understanding the Cloud
- The Dark Side of Clouds
- Building Great Companies on the Cloud
- Operating Systems
- Kernel-Exchange Modules
- Control Services
- Distributed Composite Services
- Basic Services
- Application Exchange Modules
- Cloud Enterprise
- IT Security Delivered from the Cloud
- Ahead in the cloud – The power of Infrastructure as a Service
- Dynamic Deployment & Scalability for the Cloud
- A Novel Approach to Cloud Networking
- Cloud Architecture
- The Benefits of Cloud Storage
- Cloud Computing Applications
- Distributed Infrastructure
- Getting Ready for Cloud Computing – IT Strategy, Architecture and Security Perspective
- The Business Value of Cloud Computing & Virtualization
- Leveraging Endpoint Virtualization
- Compliance in the New Age of Virtualization and Securing the Benefits of Virtualization 2.0
- Enabling Disaster Recovery for any size business
- The impact of IT Virtualization on Applications and Networks
- Virtual Desktop Delivery
- Potential of Virtualization
- Managing Virtualization with IT Process Automation
- Troubleshooting your virtual Infrastructure
- Controlling Virtual server sprawl
- Virtualization Management Futures
- Agent-based Cloud Computing and Cloud Economy
- Cloud Business Models
Web Technologies and Internet Applications
- Web Technologies and Applications
- Web Services based Systems and Applications
- P2P Systems and Applications
- Virtual Environments and Web Applications for eLearning
Social Computing and Behavioural Modeling
- Theories of Social Computing
- Psycho-cultural situation awareness
- Social Network Analysis and Mining, Semantic web
- Group formation and evolution
- Social Behavior Modeling
- Cultural patterns and representation
- Human-machine Interactions
- Social conventions and social contexts
- Social Intelligence, Social Cognition
- Causal, and non-linear relationships
- Social Computing Applications
- Modelling, projection, and forecasting
- Analytic approaches
- Social network analysis and mining
- Group interaction and collaboration
- Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence in Social Contexts
- Group representation and profiling
- Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts
- Cultural modelling and dynamics
- Social Engineering, Tools, and Case Studies
- Influence process and recognition
- Services Science, Quality, Architecture, Management, and Tools
- Public opinion representation
- Social System Design and Architectures
- Search, data, and inference
Enterprise Resource Planning & Supply Chain Management
- ERP performance measurement and optimization
- Business case quantification and solution implementation
- Obstacle identification and solution implementation
- Supply Chain Management-Decision intelligence
- The life cycle of ERP & SCM
- ERP Security and Control
- ERP embedded Controls
- Process ERP
- Problems in planning for an ERP project
- ERP Implementation- a challenge to succeed
- ERP Readiness and Relevance Assessment
- Lean International Supply Management
- Procurement Tactics for Managing through Crisis
- Supply Chain Risk Management and Mitigation
- Supply Chain Organization Structure and Strategy
- Supply Chain Information Systems
- Supply Chain planning
- Analyzing Supply Chain Information Flow
- Supplier Network Collaboration
- Global Sourcing Operations
- Strategic Supply Chain Management
- Six Sigma Techniques
- Economics of multi-node/multi-national supply chain
- Supply Chain Performance Management
- Business Process management & improvement
Mobile Communications, Networking and Applications
- Mobile computing and wireless networking
- Solutions to low power and energy limitations
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems and mobile applications
- Algorithms/models for wireless networks and mobile applications
- Measurements and performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks
- Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks
- Multimedia over Wireless
- Next Generation Mobile Networks
- Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs
- Wireless mesh networks
- Cellular data networks
- Delay-tolerant networks
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Personal area networks
- Vehicular networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Smart Wireless Sensors
- Ad hoc Networks
- Wireless Security
- Wireless IP networks
- Seamless Mobility in Cellular Networks
- Satellite-based Systems
- Wireless QOS
- Coding and Modulation
- Wireless and Mobile applications
- Wireless sensor network architectures
- Semantic wireless sensor networks
- Security and privacy in wireless sensor actuator networks
- Wireless Emergency and Security Systems
- Broadband mobile communication systems
- Wireless technologies for sensors
- Transmitters and receiver components
- Bluetooth technologies
- Developments in RF
- Home networks
- Mobile intelligent networks
- Security aspects
- Mobile intelligent networks
- Mobile Computing Devices
- Peer to Peer Tuning
- Communications Software and Services
- Mobile Computing Systems
- Social networking applications
- Vehicular Networks
- QOS in Networks
- Localization in Ad-hoc Networks
- Convergence issues
- 3G/4G Networks
- Wireless Communications
- Space-Time, UWB, MIMO and Adaptive Antennas
- OFDM, CDMA and Spread Spectrum
- Modulation, Coding and Diversity
- Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
- Channel Model and Characterization
- Multi-Hop and Cooperative Communications
- Interference Cancellation and MUD
- Radio Resource Management and Allocation
- Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio
- Satellite & Space Communications
- Multimedia Communications
- Multiple Access Techniques
- Optical Communications Network Technologies
- Wireless & Mobile Networking
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Cognitive Radio Networks
- Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking
- Networking and Information Security
- Network Protocol and Congestion Control QoS
- Mobility, Location and Handoff Management
- Capacity, Throughput, Outage and Coverage
- Multimedia in Wireless Networks
- Optical Networks and Systems Services and Application
- Emerging Wireless/Mobile Applications
- Context and Location-Aware Wireless Services
- Wireless Telemedicine and E-Health Services
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- RFID Technology and Application
- Cognitive Radio and Sensor-Based Applications
- Content Distribution in Wireless Home Environment
- Service-Oriented Architectures, Service Portability
- SIP Based Services, Multimedia and Middleware
- Innovative User Interfaces for Multimedia Services
Network Technologies & Communications
- Ad hoc mobile networks
- Addressing and location management
- Broadband access technologies
- Capacity planning
- Cellular and broadband wireless nets
- Cognitive radio networking
- Congestion control
- Content-based network service
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Cyber‐physical systems and networks
- Datacenter and cloud networks
- Denial of service mitigation and prevention
- Delay/disruption tolerant networks
- Dynamic spectrum management
- Energy‐efficient networks
- Future Internet design
- Grid networks
- Implementation and experimental testbeds
- Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols
- Middleware support for networking
- Mobility models and mobile networks
- Multicast, broadcast and anycast
- Multimedia protocols and networking
- Network applications and services
- Network architectures
- Network coding
- Network control
- Network management
- Network measurement, simulation and emulation
- Online social networking
- Optical networks
- Peer‐to‐peer networks
- Power control and management
- Pricing and billing
- Quality of service
- Resource allocation and management
- RFID networks and protocols
- Routing protocols
- Scheduling and buffer management
- Security, trust and privacy
- Self-organizing networks
- Sensor networks and embedded systems
- Switches and switching
- Topology characterization and inference
- Traffic measurement and analysis
- Traffic engineering and control
- Vehicular, underground and underwater networks
- Virtual and overlay networks
- Web services and performance
- Wireless mesh networks and protocols
